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Originally Posted by tkflames
Great Post!! This was a great read first thing in the morning.
The team that I find exemplifies this theory is Boston. Last night (watching only the 3rd period), almost every shot attempt they had on net came from movement in the offensive zone. They were constantly looking for the cross ice pass in the high slot and when they missed the net had a high retrieval rate. I suspect that depending on Boston's success this year, we will see a lot more of this in the next couple of years. This theory passes the sniff test (goalies are blamed for a disproportionally large amount of goals against), the eye test in that teams like Boston look downright terrifying in the offensive zone and clearly the stats test as you so eloquently laid out above.
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The flames low shooting % could quite simply be because of how little the opposing goalies need to move laterally from flames shots. And this is a result of the flames slow transistion, always time for backcheckers to get back and block the cross ice pass.